Fat freezing

sjgold123

There is a correct terminology but i can't speak it ha!
So the process where you have a machine with suction cups that freezes your fat which apparently then unfreezes coming out of your body as water in your pee/sweat over a 3 month period. Anyone got opinions/reviewscar on this?

MissusMoon

Are you referring to "cool sculpting"?

sjgold123

Possibly lol...

WBB55

Holy moly. I can't even imagine how this might effect someone with Raynaud's. But... then again... botox is essentially paralyzing yourself. So I guess this makes sense, too.

quiksylver296

It's about as effective as these were...

VeryKatie

I'd just go outside in the winter and hope for the same results..

stealthq

According to the results from the clinical trial, there were results but they were minor. I wouldn't waste my time or money.

Treece68

Is this a thing people do?

sjgold123

Well I saw it on fbk and just never heard of it. It's available in America and just come to the uk. It's meant to be a process where by fat is frozen then melts leaving your body naturally. Easy right lol!? It's meant to be a 3 month process as in by the end of the 3months your results are measurable but can be noticed as soon as 10 days in.
Sounds simple...too good to be true....but pretty neat if it works. It's non invasive.

WBB55

sjgold123 wrote: »

Well I saw it on fbk and just never heard of it. It's available in America and just come to the uk. It's meant to be a process where by fat is frozen then melts leaving your body naturally. Easy right lol!? It's meant to be a 3 month process as in by the end of the 3months your results are measurable but can be noticed as soon as 10 days in.
Sounds simple...too good to be true....but pretty neat if it works. It's non invasive.

Radiation is non invasive, too.

Pipsg1rl

A friend of a friend had it done here in the US. I was curious b/c they are pushing ads all over the place for it. It freezes the cells, killing them off. It looks like there are targeted areas of your body you can have it done. (Flank, inner and outer thighs, and chin). The fat flushes out over a period of a few months.
If you gain fat again, it will disperse in other areas and not the areas you had "cool sculpted" away.
The website said some people sleep through the procedure and you can return to work after.

spookyface

I read Mama June from Honey BOO Boo show had it done.

WBB55

There's that funny phenomenon of when you have certain fat taken from your body, then you get fat, except you don't get fat in that one area, but you're fat all around it.

Camish911

spookyface wrote: »

I read Mama June from Honey BOO Boo show had it done.

That's a sterling review right there! Sign me up!

sjgold123

Look I'm not niave but at the same time intrigued. I have never done any fad/trend dieting but saw this and wondered if anyone had any experiencesuggestions. Seems like a way to make a quick buck and I'm sure if it was that simple then ithe would be widely available under prescription but still looking for thoughts.

BarbieAS

I have an acquaintance who had it done. She was pleased with the results as compared to her expectations. My understanding is that it's not meant for someone who wants to see a drastic change, it's more meant for someone who just wants to shave an inch or so off a specific area of the body. I have terrible saddlebags (excess fat on my hips/outer thighs), and I will always have them due to where I carry my weight, and this is a procedure I'd definitely consider once I'm done losing weight - knowing it wouldn't be a significant change, but maybe just enough of a difference to make my clothes lay a little better, stuff like that.

evilokc

I know a girl who did her jawline to get rid of a small double chin. It worked well. She has a strong jaw now and it looks natural..

rankinsect

It's not going to cause any net fat loss, it is fat redistribution. Essentially, it kills some fat cells in a targeted area, which means as your body needs to store fat, it stores it elsewhere, in living fat cells. You don't excrete out unburned fat or anything, these dying fat cells still release their fat into your blood where it's either metabolized or stored somewhere else.

So for overall fat loss - no, it won't help, you still have to follow CICO to gain or lose total fat. But if you dislike how you always gain fat first in your abdomen, or you want a leaner chin, it can work just fine. It won't change how much fat you have, it will change where that fat is located on your body.

st476

If it takes a few months for it to show wouldn't it be better to just eat less and exercise for those months and save yourself tons of money? Either way it does sound cool

RDHJane

I had it done. It doesn't actually work! What happens is you have a cloth put over the bit you want freezing ( I had my stomach done - twice ) The technician puts the vacuum cup thingie on the cloth and then it sucks up all your fat into the cup. It then heats it and then cools it to freezing. Then you sweat out or wee out the broken down fat cells. So it can work except but due to legality and insurance reasons (if you have it done in a UK salon) they are unable to take it down to the 'freeziness' it needs to actually kill the cells. I had this conversation with the salon owner when I said the first time didn't show any results at all.